Career
After the death of McKay in 1970, he was eventually returned to a position as an Assistant to the Twelve Apostles, and later to the First Quorum of the Seventy when it was reconstituted in 1976. After his mission, he had the opportunity to play professional baseball, but declined the offer because he would have to play on Sundays. Instead he studied mechanical drafting and technical engineering in order to become a sheet metal journeyman.
He later managed the heating and air conditioning department of Utah Builders Supply.
Eventually, he formed the Dyer Distributing Company which he owned until 1954, when he dissolved all his business interests upon being called to full-time service as a Mission President in the church. In addition to his service as a general authority, he served in many capacities within the church holding such callings as bishop and stake high councilor.
He served as president over the Central States Mission of the church beginning in 1954, and over the European Mission from 1960 to 1962. He told the missionaries, "you can teach..everything that a person needs to know to be baptised in this Church in less than three minutes.
Aside from his business and church activities, he was active in both the Missouri Historical Society and the Jackson County Historical Society.
The priesthood ban was removed by the church in 1978. In August 1967, McKay resolved to appoint Dyer as one of his counselors. McKay made the decision without consulting his other counselors Hugh B. Brown and North. Eldon Tanner.
The appointment caused some tension between Brown and Tanner and the newly called Dyer over what Dyer"s role would be and whether his calling was as a counselor "to" the First Presidency or "in" the first presidency.
In 1972, Dyer suffered a stroke that limited his activity. He died at his home in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1977.